I know we're all *on* social media. And we're all tweeting and posting and promoting stuff all over the place. But do you have a plan? And I don't mean an activity plan. I mean an EMPIRE plan? We spend so much of our day on social media, it's a shame not to capture some [...][Continue Reading...]

To a small blogger, like myself, a single post that generates over 1,200 views in two days is amazing. It's not Viral with a capital "v" but it's certainly viral. The problem with this "hit" is the driver was Flipboard. And I have no way to track it back to the source, or the champion [...][Continue Reading...]

How Do You Follow? I am a firehose of data. I'm part of that 1% of people who really chews up a high volume of information and spits it back out in various ways. If you have people like me in your network, you can use them to your advantage. We, the influencer-types can be [...][Continue Reading...]

So have you read the young man's piece on social media that's burning up the net? Andrew Watts wrote a salient and insightful piece on his use, and his peer group's use of social media. A Teenager's View on Social Media – Andrew Watts (@thatswattsup) It's a good read, and led me to install SnapChat and YikYak [...][Continue Reading...]

Facebook is a long way from becoming a ghost town, it's just currently more like a superhighway littered with billboards. We'd really like it to be a cosy cafe where we could enjoy a cup of coffee and conversation with a friend or to.[Continue Reading...]

Regardless of your needs, a consultant can probably work within your budget, time requirements, and client-contact needs. I am flexible and happy in any of the three roles and even some hybrid roles. Again, we are in these projects together. The only way I'm successful is to deliver the project on-time and on-budget with a happy client on the other end. [Continue Reading...]

So for me, the 3rd device is a nice to have, but not a must have. Maybe the next generation of iPads will have something that changes the game even more than they already have. But I'm still thinking that most developers and creators will be using Laptops for the foreseeable future. And probably not WIN 8 laptops.[Continue Reading...]

On any given day as many as 15 additional pages of my content are being shared through their sites, building traffic and authority as well as driving a new audience to my original site via "related posts" links at the bottom which point directly to my original site.[Continue Reading...]

As an email and contact platform Facebook is just "one more" device that I needed to check. Now, I've deleted the Facebook app from my phone, and that right there is about 50% of my distracted phone time, that I now have to do something else with.[Continue Reading...]